Did I Tell You? – May 18, 2020
“Now that you are almost grown I look back and ask myself. Did I tell you? Did I tell you all that I meant to tell you, all that I felt was important. Did I tell you or was it lost in the shuffle of our everyday lives. The busy full days when we taught […]
Which Fire? – Apr. 30, 2020
The dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe one discharge from sin and error.The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love.Love is the unfamiliar NameBehind the hands that woveThe intolerable […]
In My End is My Beginning – Apr. 28, 2020
Love is most nearly itselfWhen here and now cease to matter.Old men ought to be explorersHere and there does not matterWe must be still and still movingInto another intensityFor a further union, a deeper communionThrough the dark cold and the empty desolation,The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast watersOf the petrel and the porpoise. […]
Prayer for the Earth – Apr. 22, 2020
Spirit of loveThat flows against our fleshSets it tremblingMoves across it as across grass Erasing every boundary that we acceptAnd swings the doors of our lives wide— This is a prayer I sing: Save our perishing earth! Spirit that hears each one of us,Hears all that is—Listens, listens, hears us out— Inspire us now! Our own […]